Sentry-NoC
Ahmed Shalaby, Yaswanth Tavva, Trevor E. Carlson, Li-Shiuan Peh · 2021
SoC security has become essential with devices now pervasive in critical infrastructure in homes and businesses. Today's embedded SoCs are becoming increasingly high-performance and complex, comprising multiple cores, accelerators, and IP blocks interconnected with a Network-on-Chip (NoC). As these IPs can originate from diverse sources, they cannot be trusted to form the root of trust in SoCs. However, the NoC itself, being the communication backbone linking all IPs, is naturally positioned to be the basis for a secure SoC. Therefore, there is a need for an efficient solution that both meets the stringent requirements of modern embedded SoC designs, while maintaining a high level of security.